is to close blast furnaces in port talbot with 3,000 jobs to go. the union plan to savejobs has failed. so what does it say more generally about the green transition? also in the programme. a walk out in northern ireland. no government, no funding, no pay rises. is the standoff over stormont now a constiutional crisis. a constiutional crisis? and is it the demand for cocaine europe that has turned ecuador into a war zone with the drug cartels? is there a future for steel making in the uk? and if there is then what sort of sector does it become. that very issue has been under discussion today between unions representing the steel workers of south wales and the bosses of the tata steel making company. no official word of what has been agreed but we understand tata steel is to close both blast furnaces at its port talbot works with the loss of up to 3,000 jobs. instead of blast furnaces, tata have a plan backed by the british government to invest in a new, greener, electric ar
Akhmed Yakoob is the independent candidate for the West Midlands mayoral election. A director with a Birmingham-based firm of solicitors, Mr Yakoob has more than 178,000 followers on TikTok where his videos have been liked almost four million times. Mr Yakoob says he wants to create more homes in the region by building on brownfield sites.
Cities which fail to meet tough new housing targets will be forced to build on brownfield sites to “protect our precious countryside”, Rishi Sunak has announced.